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GCC Fiscal Policy & the Balance of Trade: Gulf States Issue Bonds in their Plans to Raise Debt as the Price of Oil Falls

Simon Wakerley

28th April 2016

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Bond issues are in fashion in the GCC (Gulf Co-operation Council) region with Abu Dhabi, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain all planning debt-raising issues in the coming months.

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Simon Wakerley

Sam Wakerley is a teacher of Economics at the British School Al Khubairat. He has led and taught economics for five years initially in Devon, UK and now overseas in the United Arab Emirates.

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